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Then They Came for Tumblr: Yes, Tech Totalitarians Can Just Pull the Plug

Then They Came for Tumblr: Yes, Tech Totalitarians Can Just Pull the Plug

PQC: And the day will come when THEY will wipe this tiny blog for “the fucking Jews” reason! Unless the People wipe the fear of fucking Jews and the fucking State out of their minds! Don’t ever count on the rule of law and the worthless old piece of paper called Constitution! Have you seen enough of THEIR “respect” for the law and the Constitution?

Ever
wonder what it would be like for a website or platform to suddenly just
pull the plug on an enormous swath of its users? Not just one or two
thought criminals (such as, to pick at random, American Renaissance), or even a few dozen or hundred users, but a massive purge? Well, you are about to see such an act, arguably for the first time.

On
December 3, the micro-blogging platform Tumblr announced that in one
fortnight, on December 17, all “adult content” will be permanently
removed from its site.

What
is Tumblr? It’s just one of the most popular blogging platforms on the
planet. So popular, in fact, it often ranks as one of the most popular
websites on earth. Moz, at the time of this writing, placed it as number fourteen, putting it higher than Amazon.com.

Tumblr
is like a cross between WordPress and Twitter. You create your own
account/site, which is yours, but is still on the Tumblr platform. The
structure of site is such that it is best used for visuals (photos,
videos, GIFs, memes) as opposed to longform writing (as in the case of
WordPress) or pithy quips and jokes (as in the case of Twitter).

Founded in 2007, for a while it was the
“it” platform to be on. I set one up in high school because, well, all
the cool kids were doing it. During my first week of college, I
mentioned to another freshman that though I was not on Facebook, I did
have a Tumblr, to which he replied, “God, you are such a hipster.”

Over the years, Tumblr became best known for three things:

1)
It was the original incubator for what we now call “Social Justice
Warriors.” Back in 2011, if you wanted to find political opinions
expressing outrage about how absolutely everything was unforgivably
racist, Tumblr was the place to find it (Great example: “Yo, Is This Racist?”).

3)
Porn. As some of you may have guessed when I noted that Tumblr was a
very visual medium, it always lent itself well to porn clips, erotic (or
simply explicit) photography, and the all-important GIFs.

Just
how much of Tumblr is porn? I doubt anybody knows for sure, but the
short answer is: “a ton.” (VDARE.com is only posting pictures of Tumblr
girls in bikinis, but they are overdressed by Tumblr standards.) One report on the announcement put it this way:

Since
its launch in 2007, the platform has been a popular host for explicit
blogs, sex worker websites and porn-centered communities who relished
having a safe, unrestricted space to call their own…

…
not only was explicit content from that community a key driver of
Tumblr’s initial success, it has been essential to the site’s longevity,
as countless other more advanced social media networks and apps have
saturated the market and chipped away at the company’s share. That
Tumblr still exists is due, in no small part, to the loyalty of adult
content creators who are now being told that their posts — the bulk of Tumblr’s content — are no longer welcome. (emphasis added)

Set
aside, for just a moment, however you feel about porn, its purveyors,
and its connoisseurs. What Tumblr is doing here is really quite
incredible. It is purging from its rolls one of its most defining and
popular aspects—the ability to post porn.

There
are hundreds of thousands, if not more, of loyal Tumblr users who have
been running porn-centric blogs for years—some for more than a decade.
They have built up voluminous archives to their liking, and in many
cases amassed huge followings of folks with similar, shall we say,
“tastes.”

Then,
one day, Tumblr announced that in fourteen days it will all be gone. It
is not just that users will no longer be able to post porn, it is that all porn that has been posted will be deleted—and
the WayBack Machine preserves precious few Tumblrs, and in general is
bad at preserving photos and videos anyway. Archive.org volunteers are trying: see The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity|Volunteers
are scrambling to download up to 800 terabytes of content from Tumblr’s
adult-themed community before it disappears from view on December 17,By Sean Captain, Fast Company, December 12, 2018.

Imagine
if your Twitter were deleted not because you did anything that violated
their terms of service, but simply because Twitter one day decided to
change its rules for posting and found that essentially all of your
tweets were in violation of their new rules, so gave you two weeks’
notice and then blew it all away.

Hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, of Tumblr users are now essentially in
that situation. Again, however you feel about porn, it is a bit sad.
Imagine working on a blog for ten years and then just having the plug
pulled.

Tumblr is doing this for a few different reasons. The biggest is that they never really got good at keeping child porn off the platform in any kind of permanent or comprehensive way.

But other important factors were:

1) They had a hard time keeping spam porn Tumblrs—run by bots seeking to generate revenue for whatever porn site—at bay.

2)
They just did not really want to be known as a platform largely used for
porn. For years it has been easy to find lists across the web about the
best Tumblr porn out there (e.g. here and here)—and
those lists could be found on prominent and well-read websites, mind
you. One them was Salon.com, which normally agonizes about “sexy profile pics”.There
has also been the understanding for a few years now that if you are
looking for good porn, the best place to go hunting is Tumblr.

Corporations,
regardless of size, are certainly prone to making sudden and dramatic
changes in course—and this is one such example.

But
what makes this so interesting, and noteworthy, is that there is
essentially no chance this change will make Tumblr’s user base happy.
Tumblr has, in effect, grown tired of one huge segment of its users and
is purging them. You might even say they are abolishing this user base,
and hoping to Elect A New—and better—one.

The two questions that arise are:

1) Where are all the pornographers going to go?

2)
Will Tumblr find a new and equally sizeable user group to make up the
difference, or will they shrink into irrelevance, or even fold?

In the case of the pornographers, I suspect that they will in time find a solution. As with Dissident Rightists,
pornographers face all kinds of deplatforming and social stigma, and
tend to find ways around it. (It helps that they, unlike us, have money
to throw at problems).

For example, the pornography industry now has an equivalent to Patreon (OnlyFans.com),
as they knew Patreon would give them the boot in no time. When
individual pornographers are told by banks or realtors to take a hike,
the pornography industry as a whole networks and helps each other out.
When legislation is being considered that would clamp down or regulate
pornography, the industry includes previews in their DVDs asking viewers
to call their representatives to protest—and they tweet about it
aggressively as well, to their typically huge armies of followers.

As for Tumblr, only time will tell.

Let
us all hope, however, that things end badly for them. If Tumblr crashes
and burns because of this, Silicon Valley will assuredly take note that
summarily purging a huge set of users of a certain service—and out of
the blue at that—can come with very bad consequences.

While
you might not like being compared to porn aficionados, from the bird’s
eye perspective of the staff at tech giants, Thought Crime and porn have
much in common: both have large user bases that the company finds
embarrassing, both face repeated calls from outsiders to ban said user
base completely, and both are seen by many as an inherently unsavory, or
even criminal bunch.

If Tumblr goes the way of MySpace because of this new move, Twitter will be much less likely to forever ban every troll and pepe on Twitter.

So,
let us pray for hard times at Tumblr. And remember, no matter what, one
day the powers that be really can just pull the plug—just ask BoobsAreCool.Tumblr.com.